qmail replying "failure notice" although mail is deliverd correctly

[richy66]

Hi guys,

we are having a very strange qmail-Problem !

The installation is a CentOS 4.2 and Plesk 8.1.1 with Dr.Web Scanner.

Sometimes when you send a Mail to a local or remote User (doesnt matter if local or remote) qmail returns a failure notice to the sender, that the mail couldnt be delivered - the receipient/s in the failure notice do not match the real receipient at all and the real receipient receives the mail without error!

I have a Example to illustrate:
I sent a Mail from rixxx at dornxxx.at to pexxx at haexxxx.at and got the following msg:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at web1.dornxxx.at.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[email protected]>:
81.223.160.107 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 550 Tagged as spam, score 19.9.

<[email protected]>:
81.223.160.107 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 550 Tagged as spam, score 19.9.

<[email protected]>:
81.223.160.107 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 550 Tagged as spam, score 18.7.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: (qmail 6081 invoked by uid 110); 5 Apr 2007 08:40:14 +0200
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: (qmail 6068 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2007 08:40:14 +0200
Received: from mx2.dornxxxx.it (HELO hosting.dornxxxx.it) (80.1xx.xx.1xx)
by web1.dornxxxx.at with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 5 Apr 2007 08:40:14 +0200
Received: from [192.168.0.170] (host-28-162.pxxxxxxel.tv [193.xx.xx.1xx])
by hosting.dornxxxx.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE813EC13A
for <[email protected]>; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:40:15 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:40:12 +0200
From: Ricxxxxx Dornxxxx <[email protected]>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: AW: Export xxxx
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Any help is appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance!
Richy

 

[NightMan]

have you solved this?

 

[richy66]

Hello NightMan,

no sorry, couldnt find any solution, and all the threads here dont help. I personaly hate qmail....

Bye,
Richy

 

[NightMan]

I am having the same problem. have upgraded the psa and so on. but the problem still exist. next thing we can do is complete new install of Os. this is crazy...

 

[richy66]

Hi NightMan,

i think it will not help you to reinstall the OS as the problem exists on my clean installed CentOS 4.2 box since i made the migration from Plesk 7.5 to 8.0.1, and also the upgrade to 8.1.1 didnt help anything!

At the moment i have set up a second box running ISPConfig on it, which i am very happy with. It has the far more transparent configuration and packets but is definitely not that end user friendly as plesk is. As we do not let our users self-administer this is not really the point for me, but the real problem is, that in this config the realy nice feature of plesk - Mailuser is: [email protected] does not work, so one would have to change all users...

In our farm we also have 3 Servers with confixx on it, i can tell you this is much worse than plesk...

Bye,
Richard

 

[de_he]

Hello,

one idea (but surely you already have checked this out) is to use "mchk" utility from Plesk which tries to repair some parts of the mail system.

Maybe it is worth a try?

 

[NightMan]

will take a look in to that utility.

I receive bounce msg from unknown mail id, which I did not sent to. the server is not hacked and everything works fine. orig. msg also delivert fine. dont know where those mail bounces come from.

 

[johnpugh24]

I have been having the same issue, I thought it was to do with a cron job I run to clear down failure notices on our server (EL3 and 8.1) Is anyone doing this?

If not, perhaps it was the upgrade to 8.1 that started it.

Cheers,

John